Pierre Hébert
b. 1939
Pierre Hébert, recipient in 2004 of the Albert-Tessier Quebec government award for cinema, was born in 1944 in Montreal. Self taugh, strongly influenced by animation film makers Norman McLaren and Len Lye, he directed his first films independently while he was still studying Anthropology at the University of Montreal. He worked at The National Film Board of Canada from 1965 until the end of 1999. Since then he pursue his carreer as an independant artist and filmmaker. From 1996 to 1999, he was producer and director of the Animation/Youth studio of the French program of the NFB. He was first known for his abstract experimental films dealing with perception phenomena ( Op hop, Opus 3, Around perception, Fundamentals of genetics ). Later, although he always kept an experimental approach, his films became more socially and politically involved (Entre chiens et loup, Memories of war). Later, his work grew out of interdisciplinary projects ( Etienne et sara, Songs and dances of the inanimate world-the metro, O Picasso-tableaux d'une surexposition, Adieu bipèdes, La Lettre d'amour ). From 1983, he started to take part in live performances with musicians (Jean Derome, Robert M. Lepage a…
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